The Project 'Buddy'

~36~

It was nice seeing it again. He smiled slightly, remembering the memories he created with his two good friends. It was sad that they couldn't meet to enjoy this together...
Just then, he felt a shove from his shoulder, and someone shouting, "Race you guys to the bubble tea stall!"
Sunoo frowned at turned to his left, and his breathing stopped when he saw a familiar figure.

Same height as him. Big, cat-like eyes. Small round face.

"Jungwon?!"
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Jungwon's POV

Jungwon whipped his head to his right. His eyes met with two foxy like ones, wide with shock. The two stared at each other for a few seconds and Jungwon finally reacted by flinging his arms around his long time friend.

"Sunoo!" He greeted, giving the latter a tight squeeze. Sunoo immediately wrapped his arms around Jungwon and hugged him back.

"Oh my gosh! You're here! Oh my-" he pulled back and examined Jungwon, "you look so big! Oh god-it's been so long. Gosh..."

Jungwon giggled and smiled. Sunoo looked him in the eye before hugging him once more.

"I missed you," he whispered.

"Me too," Jungwon answered, pulling away.

Sunoo gave him one last amused look before raking a hand through his hair. He let out a breath and his amber eyes were still wide with surprise.

"You're really here. Oh gosh. Since when?!"

Jungwon grinned. "Since yesterday. We came to surprise you guys."

"Oh my-"

"Jungwon?"

Jungwon turned to face the source of the voice, and his eyes turned wide with happiness. He bounded over to Jake and squished the latter into a bear hug.

"Ah! It's really you!" Jake beamed and Jungwon giggled while letting go.

Niki then suddenly appeared with bubble tea in his hands, and Hana was by his side. He was talking about something in Japanese when he glanced up and met eyes with the two other men.

His eyes widened. "Jake hyung? Sunoo hyung?"

"Oh. My. God. Naur way." Jake gasped, walking over to Niki and touching his hair. "Your hair! Your, everything! You've grown so big! Oh gosh, have you grown taller?"

Niki chuckled and stuffed his hands in his pockets while flipping his Oreo bangs out of his eyes. "Clearly. You're shorter now," he joked and Jake hit him.

"Aish, same old attitude you have, child," Jake scoffed and Niki snorted.

"Ey, don't be like that. You literally said before the flight here that you couldn't wait to see Jake hyung," Jungwon drawled and Jake gasped happily, facing Niki.

Niki blinked innocently and shook his head. "No, no I didn't. I said Heeseung hyung. You got to get your hearing checked-heyyy stop approaching me like that!" Niki backed away, almost bumping into Hana. He laughed when Jake started tickling him and glanced at Sunoo.

Jungwon noticed how a red hue formed on his cheeks.

He nudged his friend who bit his lip and looked away. "He looks so.."

"Different?" Jungwon finished, "or were you going to say 'hot'?" He earned himself a smack from Sunoo on the head.

"Yah! Don't give me dirty thoughts," Sunoo grumbled, side eyeing Jungwon with his sly fox eyes.
They smiled at each other when Sunoo must've noticed Hana, because his grin dropped, and he was seriously eyeing Hana fiercely.

"Um, Sunoo? Hello?" Jungwon waved a hand in front of his face, hoping to stop the frown that was forming deep into onto his face.

"Who's that?" he asked instead, and Jungwon looked over at Hana, who was playfully pushing Niki as they wrestled.

"Oh, that's Hana. This girl we met in Japan. She's part of our dance team..we invited her to come with us! She didn't want to come," Jungwon quickly explained when Sunoo raised a scary eyebrow towards him.

Sunoo pouted and mumbled an 'okay' before going back to looking at Niki and Hana.

Jungwon smirked and gave Sunoo a sly smile. "Is someone jelly?"

Sunoo gasped and smacked Jungwon again. "No! And don't say that so loudly, we're surrounded by GenZs! They know what we're talking about!" Sunoo rapped, while Jungwon started laughing hard. He held his stomach while Sunoo glared at him, his cheeks pink and lips in a big pout. He was about to comfort Sunoo when he heard a voice beside them.

"Who's jelly?"

"Pfft, Sunoo-"

Jungwon stopped laughing. Stopped breathing altogether. Vanilla entered his nose and those dark piercing eyes widened when he turned to face them.
He gaped slightly, not sure what or how to react when he met gazes with the taller male. He heard Sunoo saying something but didn't take notice of it, the sounds around him muffling up.

Like he just got sucked into a black hole.

His breath, knowledge on how to breathe was taken away. And his heart slowed when he took in the sight in front of him.

Long dark brown hair that reached his eyes. Cat like gaze. Black long sleeved shirt with jeans that fitted stunningly on him.

He was there. In Jungwon's presence. And alone.

What the hell was Park Jongseong doing here?